What you should pay attention when making a flash slideshow?

Planning is the key word for creating a successful slideshow. This is not difficult, but does require time and effort on your part before hiring a professional slideshow creating company to create your unique flash slideshow. Here are some steps you can follow to insure a beautiful slideshow production.

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1. Determine how long you want your slideshow to be.

Do not make it too long. This is definitely a point to stress. 6 - 10 minutes maximum. This way you will keep the attention of your audience. If you don’t want to make the slideshow a main event, but would like to run it continually in the background on a laptop, then make it as long as you wish.

The length of your slideshow will determine how many photos you can use. If you are using the simple fade-in fade-out style, you can usually use about 80 pictures for a 10 minute show. And that is about all most audiences can handle. As we all know, we don’t always enjoy viewing one anothers photos for a long period of time. So, the more creative the show, the longer it can play and your audience will not even realize how much time has passed.

2. Please Your Audience

If possible include some photos of the people who will be viewing the presentation. Everyone loves to see themselves light up on the big screen! It will make them feel a part your special event and keep their interest peaked to see who will be showing up next. In addition, include credits in the slide show when applicable. Give credit to mothers, fathers, grandparents, brothers, sisters, friends, bridal party, and anyone else to whom credit is due.

3. Decide Your Theme

UltraSlideshow enjoys rich theme, including 3D flash templates and advanced flash templates. Choosing your theme will help you choose your photos.

A. Do you want your slideshow to span the life of an individual?

B. Is more than one person’s life going to be featured in this slideshow? If so, do you want their lives shown separately or simultaneously?

C. Is the slideshow going to focus on a specific aspect of the person’s life such as a sports video? A particular hobby? Or a particular quality aspect of a person’s life such as in a Mother’s Day Slideshow or Father’s Day Slideshow?

D. Is the time frame very specific as in a vacation slideshow? Or Christmas slideshow highlighting the current years events?

4. Choose and Organize Your Photos

These are very crucial steps and also very challenging. Sometimes it’s good to have a friend help you because they can be more objective. Organize your photos chronologically or by theme. Or depending on your slideshow, both.

An example for choosing your photos – Becky is doing a slideshow of her daughter’s graduation. She wants the photos to be from the day she was born to the day of her graduation. She goes through her photos, picks out her favorites and organizes them according to the year. Then she goes back and selects her very favorites from her favorites. Sometimes a third time is necessary, by then you will need to determine which ones MUST be in the slideshow and which ones can be omitted.

5. Choose Quality Photos

This will help you in the choosing process. Ask yourself these questions:

A. Is the photograph clear, not blurred or hazy? The blurring and haziness will be enhanced the more enlarged the photo is.

B. How is the lighting? Too dark or washed out?

C. Is the photo too grainy? Grainy photos do not scan well.

6. Choose Your Music Carefully

Hollywood producers will tell you that the right or wrong music can make or break a movie production. Choose the music according to the feeling you want to give your audience. Happy, sentimental, funny, nostalgic…. it’s all in the music. Choose music that means something to you or the person you are creating the slideshow for. Check the length of the music to the number of photos you want to use and the type of slideshow you are choosing.